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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 2: Chapter 4 ("Back to the Wreck") through Chapter 6 ("Ernest and Me").

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator decide they need to build before they can build the treehouse?
(a) Storage for their gunpowder.
(b) A shelter for the animals.
(c) A better boat.
(d) A bridge.

2. Who suggests a way to measure the distance across the stream?
(a) Fritz.
(b) Franz.
(c) Elizabeth.
(d) Ernest.

3. How does the narrator get the first rope over the branch of the tree that they want to build their home in?
(a) He climbs up.
(b) He sends the monkey up with it.
(c) With a bow and arrow.
(d) By weighting the end and throwing the rope.

4. What does the family hear the sailors shouting just before the ship hits the rocks?
(a) Sharks!
(b) Abandon ship!
(c) Land!
(d) Ahoy!

5. Just as the narrator and Fritz are about to leave camp to explore for the first time, what does he suddenly remember that they have forgotten?
(a) Their guns.
(b) To say goodbye to Elizabeth.
(c) One of the dogs.
(d) To pray.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the beginning of Chapter 6, "Ernest and Me," what tradition does the family observe?

2. What wild bird is the family's first addition to their flock?

3. How does the family end up alone on the ship?

4. What do they make their swimming belts from?

5. Which animals does the family carry from the ship with them in their improvised boat?

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